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Behind the Curtain: Bregman Electronic Music Studio

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Back when Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were the big names in American music, Dartmouth hosted the world’s first competition in electronic music. Yes, you read that right.\nUnder the direction of former music professor Jon Appleton, the College opened its first electronic music studio in 1968.


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Student Spotlight: Nick O’Leary ’14

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For his honors senior thesis project, Nick O’Leary ’14 will direct the 17th century classic production “The Alchemist,” the culmination of his interests and experiences at the College.


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Hood digitizes Native American art

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Since the Hood Museum of Art received a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services four months ago, the museum has begun to digitize its 4,000-plus pieces of Native American art in a slow but steady process.


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‘Nebraska’ is dumb luck, dark laughs

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America is big. Like, really big. You might think it’s a long way to the pharmacy, but that trip is peanuts compared to traveling across America. That’s why you get so many road trip movies; they’re all about the journey, and with a country as large and varied as the United States, you get lots of journeys.


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Panel to discuss potential for post-racial society

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This afternoon’s “A World Beyond Race” panel, featuring author and Native American studies scholar Roger Echo-Hawk and Dartmouth faculty members, will attempt to promote a new dialogue on race in society, specifically one without race. Echo-Hawk, author of “The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race” and “NAGPRA and the Future of Racial Sovereignties,” argues in his work that a post-racial world is possible.


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Beth Krakower ’93 promotes Grammy nods

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Beth Krakower ’93 is the founder of CineMedia Promotions, a publicity firm that represents film and television composers, film scores, soundtracks and cast album recordings. Krakower has represented soundtrack recordings for films such as “A Beautiful Mind” (2001), “Atonement” (2007), “Finding Nemo” (2003) and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (2004). She also represents composers such as Bear McCreary, composer for television series “The Walking Dead” and “Battlestar Galactica,” and Lalo Schifrin, composer for the “Mission: Impossible” series and the “Rush Hour” film trilogy.


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Frame of reference

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In the wee hours of March 18, 1990, two men disguised as police officers executed the largest art heist in history. In total, the men made off with works by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt and Vermeer, tearing paintings off the walls or slicing canvases from their frames. Today, empty frames mark the place of these priceless works, still missing from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Although the statute of limitation for the theft has expired, the works have never been returned.



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Behind the Curtain: The Jewelry Studio

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Broken relics, pieces of scrap and discarded parts from previous rings, earrings and necklaces will be reassembled and sorted to make new jewelry, part of the first of the Hopkins Center’s Community Venture Initiatives, the Radical Jewelry Makeover.


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Steve Kelley ’81 makes a career out of laughs

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When a freak athletic injury landed Steve Kelley ’81 in Dick’s House during his junior year, the former pole vault record holder had to re-evaluate his plans, since he would never be able to vault again. Kelley spent his time in bed drawing comics, an interest that would lead him to decades of success as an award-winning political cartoonist, public speaker, comic strip drawer and comedian.


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Student Spotlight: Michelle Khare ’14

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Michelle Khare ’14 has a film fanatic or animation buff’s dream resume. Khare, a digital media and technology major at the College, is currently in Los Angeles on the film studies Foreign Studies Program, where she is interning in the office of actor Steve Carell. In the past, Khare has worked in the marketing departments for Google and DreamWorks Studios and interned for Chris Sanders, who directed “The Croods” (2013), nominated for best animated feature film in the 2014 Academy Awards.


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Sprint the marathon: a look toward the Oscars

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Not weather-wise, of course. I’m talking about awards season. Although the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards are already behind us, an abundance of other awards shows in February and March — the Grammy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Golden Raspberry Awards and, of course, the Academy Awards — are reason enough to huddle inside with hot chocolate, popcorn and a mock-up ballot sheet.


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Exhibit features artists-in-residence

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His dilated black pupils glare at viewers, seemingly daring them to continue staring while asking “Did I give you permission to look?” Composed from heavy strokes of black, brown, gray and red, Carlos Sanchez’s eyes remain just as haunting in his “Self-Portrait” as when the artist first painted the work in 1923 as a Dartmouth student.


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Student Spotlight: Jake Gaba ’16

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While Jake Gaba ’16 participated in theater and choir in high school, he’s found himself in his biggest role yet: global social media star. This fall, on his Chinese Language Study Abroad Plus trip to Beijing, Gaba filmed himself wearing rainbow-patterned swim trunks and dancing in public places — 91 distinct places, to be exact.


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‘Freya!’ honors local Nazi resistor

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At the height of World War II, Countess Freya von Moltke’s husband came to her with a request: could she turn against friends and colleagues to form a resistance group of upper-class German citizens like themselves? Moltke considered the proposition and emphatically agreed. The Kreisau Circle began as a meeting of two dozen of Moltke’s friends and quickly strengthened. By the war’s end, however, Hitler had arrested and executed half of the group’s original members, including Moltke’s husband.


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Red Baraat fuses Punjabi with jazz for all-out party

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Baraat is the Hindi word for a groom’s wedding procession, which travels to the bride-to-be’s house on the day of their nuptials. Though it may sound like a formal affair, a baraat is a party on the move. The groom, family and friends dress in elaborate, colorful clothing and dance their way to retrieve the bride. Now add to this the equally wild and fun energy of a New Orleans jazz band, and you have Red Baraat, who will perform in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium on Thursday evening.


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Behind the Curtain: Museum Collecting 101

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In Museum Collecting 101, Dartmouth students speak with artists and collectors behind-the-scenes and even curate a show of their own. The course, a Hood Museum program started in 2002, is offered once a year, typically during the winter or spring. The classes are capped at about a dozen students and meet on Mondays several times a term.


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At 100, Armory Show is still debated

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Just over 100 years ago, the Armory Show of 1913 brought European avant-garde art to the forefront of American attention. Two thirds of the show’s art was by American artists, but the other third, by Europeans like Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, caused a scandal. \nMichael Maglaras’s “The Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show” (2013) was screened at the Hood Museum’s Loew Auditorium on Jan. 10 and brought the drama of the original show back to life. In his film, Maglaras, kept from attending the screening by inclement weather, masterfully captures a unique moment in art history and successfully positions it among greater trends in American society at the time.


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Frame of reference

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Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world are home to the most beautiful works of art. The Getty in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim in New York and the Louvre in Paris all come to mind. Perhaps this is why critics and architects jumped to their feet when the Museum of Modern Art recently announced last Wednesday that it would raze the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.


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Playwright Mulley ’05 to debut new play locally

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Kate Mulley ’05 is a playwright and co-founder of Vox Theater, a group of Dartmouth alumni involved in theater. Mulley’s original play “The Reluctant Lesbian” will be staged Saturday afternoon as part of the Northern Stage’s “New Works Now” professional play reading festival in White River Junction.